Difference between Playful and Mocking

PLAYFUL vs MOCKING: NOUN

Full of fun and high spirits
Humorous; jesting.
Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry
Liking play, prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive.
Funny, humorous, jesting, frolicsome.
Fun, recreational, not serious.
Experimental.
Full of fun and high spirits; frolicsome or sportive.

Playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)
Abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule
Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.
Any species of the genus Harporhynchus, as the brown thrush (Harporhynchus rufus).
Any American wren of the genus Thryothorus, esp. Thryothorus Ludovicianus.
Derisive or contemptuous
Teasing or taunting

Full of play; sportive; frolicsome: frisky: as, a playful child.
Showing a sportive fancy or sprightly humor; pleasantly jocular: as, a playful remark; a playful style; playful attentions.

Rascally, Devilish, Roguish, Elfish, Coltish, Rollicking, Teasing, Kittenish, Quizzical, Puckish, Prankish, Impish, Frolicsome, Mischievous, Frisky

Lampooning, Ridiculing, Misunderstanding, Shaming, Messing, Kidding, Mockery, Gibelike, Quizzical, Playful, Jeering, Disrespectful, Teasing, Derisive, Taunting

Rascally, Devilish, Roguish, Elfish, Coltish, Rollicking, Teasing, Kittenish, Quizzical, Puckish, Prankish, Impish, Frolicsome, Mischievous, Frisky

Sneering, Belittling, Denigrating, Ridiculing, Messing, Kidding, Mockery, Gibelike, Quizzical, Playful, Jeering, Disrespectful, Teasing, Derisive, Taunting

Peggy is a very sweet, playful girl that.
From birth, he was playful and craved connection.
Adorable, happy, loving, playful, and full of life!
My style of script lettering is very playful.
No playful Lumi face is embroidered onto stocking.
About Us page is playful, engaging, and colorful.
Belgian Malinois are intelligent, protective, playful, and energetic.
The playful butting of an elephant or bull.
And I went in and just got to play, like the audition process was playful, the sides were playful.
She is lightly playful but is not a boisterous heavily playful dog.

Warren is notorious for mocking Wall Street analysts.
Clad Teenagers Harassing, Mocking Native American Vietnam Vet.
Or maybe Ezekiel is just mocking that guy.
The stones dance about him, mocking his reign.
Democrats are still mocking President Trump and family.
Mocking and Unit Testing DBContext Entity Framework Core.
This is not a mocking of the church.
No problem, start mocking API responses with intercept.
South Park did a show mocking Scientology, which, I believe, is fair game for mocking with their problems.
Stoplight offers the API designer that enables describing endpoints, creating models, perform flexible mocking, and performing dynamic mocking.